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A possible abscopal effect of post-irradiation immunotherapy in two patients with metastatic lung tumors
As well as its local effects, radiotherapy leads to the delayed regression of distant non-irradiated lesions. These abscopal effects are most likely mediated by the innate immune system. Patient 1, a 74-year-o...
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Surgical management of primary intrathoracic goiters
Intrathoracic goiters account for 3.1%–5.8% of all mediastinal masses. Primary intrathoracic goiters, which receive their blood supply from mediastinal vessels and disconnect at the cervical thyroid, are even ...
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Surgical treatment for gastrointestinal metastasis of non-small-cell lung cancer after pulmonary resection
Gastrointestinal metastasis is not common in recurrent non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. There is thus limited information on clinical outcome for these patients. This report presents the clinical c...
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Surgical resection of pulmonary metastases from meningioma: Report of a case
Meningiomas rarely metastasize, and little information on pulmonary metastasectomy from meningioma has been documented. We herein report a case of a potentially curative resection for meningioma that metastasi...
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Open AccessMalignant pleural mesothelioma with long-term tumor disappearance of a local relapse after surgery: a case report
There have been few reports of spontaneous regression of malignant pleural mesothelioma, but the mechanism for this is unknown. We present a case report on a patient with malignant pleural mesothelioma showing...
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Innate immune therapy with a Bacillus Calmette-Guérin cell wall skeleton after radical surgery for non-small cell lung cancer: A case-control study
We investigated whether adjuvant immunotherapy with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) cell wall skeleton (CWS) and surgical resection was better than resection, with or without other adjuvant therapy, for patient...
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Surgical treatment for lung cancer in the left lung complicated by isolated right thoracic isomerism
The term “isolated right thoracic isomerism” is used to describe a situation in which the anatomy of the bronchi, lung lobes, and pulmonary vessels on the left side is similar to that on the right side with no...
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Suppression of pancreatic cancer cell invasion by a cyclooxygenase-2-specific inhibitor
Pancreatic cancer is characterized by invasive and metastatic potential. In this study, effects of the COX-2 inhibitor JTE-522 on cell viability, invasion, and invasion-related cellular properties were determi...
